ask unregistered

hi unregistered

as a valuable ilx contributor, you are invited to answer some questions from ppl

unregistered

how come you never registered?

as a valuable ilx contributor

aww you're too kind

how come you never registered?

think of it as a throwback to a more innocent time when the Geetika Pants and Kelsee Stewarts of the world could come to ilx and get meaningful advice on their physics exams and sex dreams without having to worry about some convoluted signup process. I mean why do people still name their kids Adam and Eve all these thousands of years later? as a reminder.

as a side note, I went through a pretty shitty weekend last fall when my car got impounded & I got hit with a $$$ fine because I had been too stupid/scatterbrained to register my car in Massachusetts when I moved there a few months earlier. so I guess I'm an unregistered kind of guy in real life too, fuck.

just kidding about that first paragraph, btw. I had some trolling in mind but never got around to it, & I decided to keep the (really not very useful for trolling purposes) "unregistered" username just cuz.

ya but it's kinda a poignant alternate narrative though

like the wild bunch, pathos of the old ilx (dis)order giving way to newfound rationalization....some frontier devillment lost to the 'civilizing process' cf elias &c

yo so uh what do u think about this song?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLoYFvbR0XY

it's pretty much the greatest eva rite?

that's indeed great, Mordy, though I must say that I'm woefully unfamiliar with Roy Rogers.

Homer & Jethro's parody of "I Want to Hold Your Hand' deserves at least an honorable mention in the Greatest Human Achievement Eva category.

hey unregistered thanks for prompt and informative reply

many other ilxors with their own 'ask x' threads could learn a lot from u imo

thx darr

alas, I find that promptness and informativeness are increasingly rare qualities among today's youth. the next few years do not bode well for customer service industries (bellhops/porters just popped into my head, although that's kind of a random example) that look for those qualities in prospective employees.

unregistered,

how would you influence recruitment if you were an area manager for an ersatz ethnic restaurant chain?

I would see to it that all the servers hired were real, documented Sherpas with mountaineering backgrounds and the willingness to wear, like, snowsuits and oxygen tanks to work. the restaurant's main selling point would be, "you are being 'guided' by real Sherpas, just like on Everest" even if the food itself had absolutely nothing to do with Nepali cuisine.

hopefully nobody find this offensive.

no! there are some nepali restaurants in london but no chains iirc

it's a growth area, definitely

there isn't a lot of that of that in my part of the US, although I learned just now that there's a restaurant in Boston called Mt. Everest Kitchen and am getting ready to phone my attorney.

ask him

hi unregd

what is the most interesting and noble bird commonly seen in your area?

dunno about noble, but I grew up in a condo complex centered around an old farmer's field with a big man-made pond in the middle, and it was home to sometimes 100+ Canada geese. it made for some entertaining goose encounters/observations, ex.:

-I started a fight between two geese when they both went after a piece of bread I'd thrown at them. they chased each other around the pond and pecked at each other's tail feathers for a long time while the rest of the flock honked and shuffled around nervously. after a while they lost interest and disappeared into the flock, protected from retribution by the fact that geese all look the same, have bad memories, and don't have names.

-one winter I walked to the field and found the entire flock crowded around this one goose who had gotten its butt stuck to the pond ice. it spent a good 15 minutes (or smth like that; I don't remember) twisting about and flapping its wings while all the other geese just hung around seeming stressed. it got free eventually, yay.

-one spring I found a goose skeleton under one of the willow trees planted around the pond. I still kick myself for not taking it home with me. I mean how awesome...

there's also the infamous bird on a wire assaulting passersby, who I never met in person, regrettably.

canada geese are noisy and altogether ignoble

-I started a fight between two geese when they both went after a piece of bread I'd thrown at them. they chased each other around the pond and pecked at each other's tail feathers for a long time while the rest of the flock honked and shuffled around nervously. after a while they lost interest and disappeared into the flock, protected from retribution by the fact that geese all look the same, have bad memories, and don't have names.

this is not the behaviour of a good bird species

canada geese are noisy and altogether ignoble

now this is just straight-up libel.

unregd, what if anything would be worth saving if switzerland was on fire?

a goat

the more i think about it, the more right it seems

^

the best ilx poster p much

aw, thanks, nakh

I hardly ever post here anymore, I don't think.

?

pressure didn't suit imo

R.I.P.

Hey Googler, what brings you to ILX?

his last post doesn't really suggest he had a vendetta against ilx and was planning a DoS attack, but uh...

there's so much to ask him now

it's like when some unassuming kid goes on a school shooting

ikr

farewell to a gontser macher of the html playground

unreg:(

so is this ever going to get cleared up?

Got a message from him; he set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequences. Is going to take time off anyway regardless of ban.

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http://www.chicagometroaeyc.org/files/images/OpeningMinds/registernow.gif

he set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequences
he set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequences
he set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequences
he set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequences
he set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequences
he set it up to mess w/ the statscock and didnt realise the consequences

fwiw I still think there's a great New Yorker article in all of this.

the first ILX-based NYer article will happen after i find dude from so not gonna happen

pretty good love story imo

gr80, we've still not find that dude? jeez. can't believe that tbh. have we set up a huge search to find him? i'll volunteer tbh

we found his Facebook page.

he denied my friend request.

if my travels ever take me to PA again it will be on my agenda

Oh it should be top priority!

unregd what, if any, 21st century music from uk do you like?

do you want me to type up a List of Band/Albums, or...?

if you like, after all, who doesnt like lists of albums by bands?

however, if the list would be too long and time to by compile, perhaps just a few 'key artists'

ok, I've enjoyed all of these:

Life Without Buildings
Bows - Cassidy
PJ Harvey - White Chalk; Let England Shake
Four Tet - Rounds
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Kaito - You've Seen Us, You Must Have Seen Us
Charlotte Hatherley
Roddy Frame - Surf
The Unthanks - Last
Broadcast
Uncle Acid
Max Tundra
Sol Seppy
Goldfrapp
Bark Psychosis - Codename: Dustsucker
Portishead - Third
Pram - The Museum of Imaginary Animals
Movietone - The Blossom Filled Streets
Louis Philippe - An Unknown Spring
Thought Forms - Ghost Mountain
the new Soundcarriers
the new Esben and the Witch

Hm. You're not who I thought you were, are you?

ha, didn't you used to think I was the same guy as display name (this cannot be changed)?

but no, this is the only handle I've posted under for the past like 5 years.

Thought you were the guy whose real name sounds like the word for onion in a foreign language.

nope (but now I am intrigued)

Few things about your posting style led me to that conclusion but recently started to doubt.

But yeah, I did confuse you with the other guy you mentioned.

does onion dude still post here?

thats quite an extensive list of uk music, i think i thought you had more of an americana sort of interest but i underestimated your cosmopolitanism

like the platonic ideal of an unregd sort of record would be a rare acapella recording of bluegrass and country rock songs by 1970s scoolchildren

thats quite an extensive list of uk music, i think i thought you had more of an americana sort of interest but i underestimated your cosmopolitanism

aw, thanks! tbf my taste is (or was a few years ago) pretty heavily slanted toward American indie/folk/singer-songwriter stuff, and I'm more or less ignorant about UK grime/garage/2step/dubstep/hip-hop/whatever. a lot of the albums on my list are throwbacks to the '90s 'lost generation' post-rock/Too Pure era, so I do seem to be fixated on a particular era of UK music.

like the platonic ideal of an unregd sort of record would be a rare acapella recording of bluegrass and country rock songs by 1970s scoolchildren

lol, my biggest fear is that I'll come across an old blog entry about an album with that exact description, but the upload link will be dead and I won't be able to find it anywhere else. I do like searching for obscuro stuff like that, even if it isn't usually very good.

90s lost generation has some interesting stuff, i should probably go back to bark psychosis and disco inferno, flying saucer attack i used to like very much
idk what else is happening now that derives from this, perhaps that last these new puritans lp

for something recent in the FSA vein, I'd recommend Jessica Bailiff's last album. I've haven't heard anything by These New Puritans, but maybe I should give them a try.

what is the reason, if any, for your interest in gerontology?

good question!

it probably stems from reading about Jeanne Calment and Shigechiyo Izumi in the Guinness Book as a child & being taken with the idea that people born in the 1870s were still living, + my naive childhood ambition/expectation of surviving into the 22nd century in peak physical form (no one ever explained to me that my chances of doing so were vanishingly small), + my weakness for treacly/condescending lifestyle articles to the effect of 'alabama-man-109-still-plays-tennis-shovels-driveway-smokes-unbelievable-amounts-cannabis', + the beauty of statistics

I'm not too knowledgeable the biology of aging, though; I'm mostly interested in the age verification process. when I have some time on my hands, I'll seek out articles and obituaries for people who claimed to be 110+-years-old, and I'll try to piece together their lifespans based on birth & census & marriage & death records (a hobby that itself stems from my interest in my own genealogy). if the person was truly a supercentenarian, I'll send my findings to the GRG (not in any official capacity — anyone can do it) so they can add another data point to their list. if it turns out the person's age was misreported, they were probably the perpetrator of pension fraud or the victim of sloppy recordkeeping, and the pedantic thrill of debunking outrageous age claims just barely outweighs the tedium of pursuing so many false leads.

ftr, Izumi died before I was born and probably wasn't anywhere near 120 years old, and Guinness has since rescinded his title. but this photo nevertheless made an impression on me:

http://i.imgur.com/IK4G72g.jpg

(iirc the children had allegedly all been born after he turned 110)

tough week in the gerontology game

yup :(

in another year and a half (being generous here) there'll be no one left from 1899 and no one will be able to boast about having lived in parts of three centuries. "born before Kitty Hawk" just doesn't have the same shock value. what a travesty for world's oldest person journalism.

there is pronounced longevity on the irish side of my family so there have been a couple of recipients of this 'centenarian bounty'

this is supposedly administered partially to discover particularly dense or ambitious frauds from people collecting the pension payments of the deceased

The fraud was only discovered because welfare staff were preparing to make the "presidential centenarian bounty payment" to McLoughlin's deceased friend, Gerry Donnelly, whose 100th birthday would have been in April 2007. Mr Donnelly had died in 1984.

Something old people never warned me about is how witnessing the 100th anniversaries adds so much context to how long time lasts.

For example, I remember when a hundred WW1 vets would appear on the local news celebrating another 11/11 or how the Titanic sinking had happened in the present century. I marched in a parade celebrating the Boy Scouts' 75th anniversary (they're up to 105 this year) and had a grandmother who remembered when they dimmed the lights in Memphis after Thomas Edison died.

Now I open up the obituaries and see outdated photos of men with sideburns and in wide lapels accompanying obituaries for men in their 80s.

xpost - that makes me think of Sogen Kato, whose family collected his pension for 30 years while his body slowly mummified in his bedroom, only to be discovered by officials ('throwing up everywhere over what they'd found') after he was pronounced the oldest man in Tokyo.

I feel like the centenarian bounty might encourage older people to inflate their own ages even as it discourages younger people from collecting their dead parents' pensions. but it probably results in a net reduction in fraud, so I won't begrudge the odd deceitful 95-year-old his €2,540 and commemorative coin (otoh I doubt any English people are lying about their ages just to get a measly telegram from the queen)

yeah but you forget that 100 years ago ireland was run by the colonial power that controlled the entire indian subcontinent with a couple of thousand civil servants, so presumably they have a fairly failsafe record of whoever was alive in 1915

the sogen kato story is one of my favourites and i am glad to be able to revisit it

yeah but you forget that 100 years ago ireland was run by the colonial power that controlled the entire indian subcontinent with a couple of thousand civil servants, so presumably they have a fairly failsafe record of whoever was alive in 1915

^valid point

this essentially useless article about longevity in sardinia caused me to spend a couple of hours reading about the piratic slave traders of the barbary states

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/20/secret-long-happy-life-mountain-villages-sardinia

we had a grim version of that story. I may relate

The inquiry also noted that many elderly Japanese citizens were dying in solitude. "Die alone and in two months all that is left is the stench, a rotting corpse and maggots," The Japan Times said in an editorial,[13]

a grim version

please do

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/recluse-shared-bed-with-her-dead-sister-for-up-to-a-year-26016977.html

:(

A Rose for Emily

would not smell as sweet presumably

lol, guilty lol

unreg, do you compose much creative writing

I wrote a lot of poetry as a teenager (& would often recite sonnets at school coffee houses and submit stuff to literary magazines), but at this point in my life I consider myself unusually prolific if I can find the patience/confidence/motivation to complete three shortish poems a year. mostly I just fill .rtf files with disjointed poem/story ideas and promptly forget about them.

If you're asking if I produce any creative writing in the vein of my joeky/idle ilx posts, then my answer is, regrettably, no.

I might ask the same question of you, though. Your submissions to the poetry contest threads are uniformly excellent, but do you produce much poetry (and/or vacuum performance art) beyond that?

(one of my more memorable high school sonnets began with the line, "If each of my regrets was but a stone", so don't go thinking I was a child prodigy or smth)

aww, that could go well, depends v much on line 2, maybe you could do an ex libris thing and suggest 5 different options

i too wrote loads of poetry (and dyson'd with death) in younger days but all my writing (poetry or otherwise) nowadays feeds into the novel i'm writing, currently 150,000 words deep & counting :/ thanks for the nice words!

i thought you might write based on your brilliant posting here - as much the wit and intelligence displayed as the prose style. 'after you brush' sequence ffs, comic novel on my desk in 5 months pls

nah, I was a staunch classicist as a teenager (I despised free verse & once had a heated argument in English class about WCW's Red Wheelbarrow — 'I'm not sure what he was trying to accomplish with this piece, but it definitely isn't a poem) so my sole concession to modernity in that particular sonnet was a nonce rhyme scheme. but I do like the idea of remixing/revising one's old high school poetry inna oulipo style.

fyi I would definitely read/buy a 150,000+-word imago novel! and if you feel bashful about sharing it with ilx, just post it piecemeal on the 'posts you had second thought about' thread and hardly anybody will catch on.

[I hereby assert my copyright over the 'after you brush' sequence and all derivative publications]

nonce rhyming scheme

this kind of nonce:http://www.unsplendid.com/noncedef_frames.htm

but uh apparently 'nonce' has a very interesting colloquial meaning in the UK that I wasn't aware of until just now :-/

I enjoyed a fleeting meander on what such a scheme might entail tbf

lol

I was a classicist too tbh, balked at even the notion of blank verse, although I did come up with some fairly elaborate rhyme schemes. very formalist, very classic prog

now I'm less that, more screaming avant-garde mess with increasingly rare motes of substantive form, and all's the better. novel is like maybe two-thirds complete if that so it will be a while longer before I post the whole thing, IF I post the whole thing

unreg you have a wodehousean knack for the right detail & I feel there is genuine lit mileage in this

my next question is whether u r ilx buddies with ogmor because you both seem into the same type of roots folk & blues

Ogmor is a good poster! but I can't remember ever having crossed paths with him on ilx, hmmmm

Happy birthday!

thanks!

happy birthday! :)

wd flense a piece of cake for you

http://www.tophatcakes.co.uk/media/art/bluewhale.jpg

awwww, thanks

one of the all-time best posters. Love yr threads. Happy b-day!

delightful unregistered!

are you getting a free slurpee today?

thx everyone! I live about 10 miles away from the nearest 7-Eleven & I didn't pass any while driving today, so no slurpee this year.

(I'm still slightly bitter @ 7-Eleven because I used to think Slurpee Day was limited to customers born on July 11, but it turns out any pleb with a May 20 birthdate can get a free one as long as they show up on the right day. I don't really need 7-Eleven to reaffirm my special-snowflakeness, but it would be a nice gesture)